Mining for National Development

Pamoja Issue 16

Pamoja Issue 16

With the recent budget announcement of Honourable Professor Sospeter Muhongo, Minister for Energy and Minerals, it is timely to discuss the importance of mining and the extractive industries to the economy and highlight some of the challenges the minerals industry is facing. Mining picked up in Tanzania after the economic reforms in the 1990s, from no commercial mines at the end of the decade, it reached a high point of six large scale modern gold mines,